Similarities Between Japanese And European Feudalism

The European Feudalistic period is similar to the Japanese Feudalistic period to a lesser extent. Feudalism, was a previously widespread political system in which peasants were obliged to live under their lords who themselves were vassals to a higher noble or even the king. In this essay, I will be covering the similarities and differences between weaponry and warfare, legal and moral frameworks, and sociopolitical systems in both European and Japanese feudalistic societies.

Despite the fact that there were some vague similarities between the weaponry and warfare in the Japanese and European feudalistic societies, there are several important differences. This includes practices such as: riding horses into battle, wearing armour and fighting

To begin, both societies were built on hereditary classes where in most cases, children were only allowed to pursue the profession of their parents before them. This allowed for very little social mobility in between the social classes. In these societies, kings and emperors were at the top of the hierarchy. During the Norman feudalistic period, the kings would parcel out land to faithful nobles, in return, the nobles promised the king loyalty, this required the nobles to follow a set of obligations: all nobles had to serve in the military for a certain amount of days every year, nobles were to supply the king with additional knights and soldiers in times of war, nobles were to serve in the kings court and give them advice on political power, and finally, nobles must give the king money on certain occasions. On the other hand, in the Japanese Feudalistic society, powerful samurai armies were raised and trained by local lords of small plots of land. Like the European feudalistic period, these armies would have fought against one another and ruled their own domains. Moreover, even though there was a royal family and other higher nobles during the Japanese feudalistic society, they had very little power and were separated from the rest of the world. Altogether, both Japanese and European Feudalistic societies have many similarities in common surrounding their sociopolitical structures, there are still a few major importance's between